science

"The conscience exists, standing before us now asking not to be created or perfected but to be chosen and defended, in need of champions, not exiles. Any fiction which refuses that request is hencefort…"

"An undevout astronomer is mad."

"If historians and linguists sometimes display great ingenuity in explaining away facts inconvenient to their pet theory, this should be seen as merely a case of the universal tendency to stick to esta…"

"Investing is not a destination. It is an ongoing journey through its four continents - theory, history, psychology and business."

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

"The Berkeley campus was academically overpowering. In the Tuesday evening colloquia, one would see a galaxy of chemists in the front row, with many Nobel Laureates and members of the National Academy …"

"The theory of repeated games is able to account for phenomena such as altruism, cooperation, trust, loyalty, revenge, threats – phenomena that may at first seem irrational – in terms of the “selfish” ut…"

"Isn’t that funny: people wearing the mantle of the academic quest for knowledge who denounce the search for knowledge on the dogmatic plea that the outcome is known beforehand? ...Even back then, give…"

"Previous to the time of Pascal, who would have thought of measuring doubt and belief? Who could have conceived that the investigation of petty games of chance would have led to the most sublime branch…"

"I’ve learned from these events that self-esteem plays as much a part in the destiny of nations as it does in the lives of individuals; that self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be do…"

"This universality of physical laws drives scientific discovery like nothing else."

"A modern poet has characterized the personality of art and the impersonality of science as follows: Art is I: Science is We."

"That fondness for science, … that affability and condescension which God shows to the learned, that promptitude with which he protects and supports them in the elucidation of obscurities and in the re…"

"No single theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain"

"opyright assures authors the right to their original expression, but encourages others to build freely upon the ideas and information conveyed by a work. This result is neither unfair nor unfortunate.…"

"There is no "scientific worldview" just as there is no uniform enterprise "science"- except in the minds of metaphysicians, school masters, and scientists blinded by the achievements of their own part…"

"The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."

"You see, if E. O. Wilson says that Indian scientists should do taxonomy, now of course, someone will say that you are preventing them from doing the sort of high science that is done elsewhere. So it …"

"Science is what we do when we don't know what we're doing."

"Then something began pushing things up out of the soil and making things out of nothing. One day things weren’t there and another they were. I had never watched things before and it made me feel very …"